Complete database of events related to the internal armed conflict in Peru, extracted from the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR). 5,159 events documented from 1817 to 2003.
On November 9, 1989, the PCP-SL took the town of Quero in Junin and murdered five people by slitting their throats, among them two women relatives of authorities. This attack was part of a wave of assassinations and destruction of public infrastructure that the Shining Path PCP carried out in …
By August 1984, after multiple attacks by the Shining Path PCP and the armed forces, the villagers of Uchuraccay had no choice but to completely abandon their community. During the previous months, incursions by the PCP-SL, the Self-Defense Committees and the military arrived indiscriminately, burning houses, stealing belongings and livestock, …
In mid-1984, after months of continuous violence that left 135 community members murdered as a result of attacks by the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path, repression by counter-subversive forces and the peasant patrols, Uchuraccay ceased to exist as an inhabited community. The surviving families fled the community, taking …
According to INEI's 1997 Survey on the Characterization of the Returning Population, 84.9% of the population displaced by political violence took place between 1981 and 1990. The total number of displaced would exceed 600,000 people. This massive displacement left many communities as 'ghost towns', without labor, greatly reducing the possibilities …
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